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Thanks to the ever-growing number of offices around the world, it takes the UNICEF emergency response teams less than 48 hours to respond to distress – supplying food, medical equipment, and so much more. Discover which parts of the world are seeking our help by clicking on the latest emergency appeals below. You can also find out what you can do to help us relieve their suffering.

    • Tents serve as temporary shelters for families who lost homes in the earthquake in Kashmir. This photo was taken by Saad, 14. Photo: UNICEF/HQ06-1242/Saad Jahangir
    • Emergencies
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    • A man evacuates his children through waist-deep waters after heavy flooding in Nowshera, Pakistan. ©REUTERS/Adrees Latif
    • Pakistan Flood Children's Appeal
    • UNICEF is working in Pakistan to help people affected by serious floods in the country. The floods are affecting more than 18 million people.
    • Brothers Adulazis, 5, Adbulbasit, 7, Asatbek, 9, and Abdulmutalib, 3, stand in the fire-gutted ruins of their home in the southern city of Jalalabad. © UNICEF/NYHQ2010-1241/Volpe
    • Kyrgyzstan conflict
    • Violence between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan has led to a refugee crisis. An estimated 300,000 Uzbeks fled their homes in Kyrgyzstan and a further 90,000 – mostly women and children – are in refugee camps in Uzbekistan.
    • A woman and her children take sit in ‘Hanna Praville’, a camp for people displaced by successive tropical storms and hurricanes in Haiti November 2008. UNICEF/NYHQ2008-1409/LeMoyne
    • Haiti Earthquake Children's Appeal
    • UNICEF is urgently appealing for emergency assistance to aid the victims of a devastating earthquake in Haiti, which rocked the Caribbean island on 12 January 2010.
    • Kenya and Ethiopia food crisis.
    • Horn of Africa Food Crisis
    • Children and families in the Horn of Africa are experiencing severe shortages of food and water, due to factors including drought and rising food prices, which have been made dramatically worse by climate change.
    • Palestinian boy standing in the debris of a destroyed house in Gaza City. Photo: UNICEF/oPt/Iyad El Baba
    • Palestine Children's Appeal
    • Life for Palestinian children in recent years has been difficult, but the recent conflict in Gaza means it has worsened dramatically.